IT solutions are not built with a single product. Deciding which products to use together can be challenging. And after selecting the products, you must integrate and configure them. IBM provides solutions that are easily integrated and configured. The IBM Software Group Horizontal Integration Analysis Team takes you through the integration points among IBM middleware products used to build solutions for specific business problems. The business scenarios covered in this collection of articles are:
Customer loyalty
: The customer loyalty business scenario shows how an organization can aggregate applications and content for its customers through a single point of integration.
Employee workplace
: The employee workplace business scenario discusses the steps involved in managing content in a virtual workplace environment.
Mediated exchange
: The mediated exchange business scenario discusses the steps involved in integrating the business-to-business (B2B) interactions between three distinct companies: a mediator, a service consumer, and a service provider.
Mergers and acquisitions (eMerge)
: The mergers and acquisitions business scenario discusses the steps involved in merging disparate IT systems and quickly building an integrated view for users with minimal disruption.
Remote
store
: The remote store business scenario discusses the steps involved in managing
a basic WebSphere® runtime environment inside a remotely located store from a central data center, including remote installation and upgrade, monitoring, problem determination, and resolution.
Small and medium business
: The small-to-medium business scenario discusses the steps involved in establishing an Internet presence and progressively extending the reach of a small-to-medium business in the marketplace.
User provisioning
: The user provisioning scenario examines the integration points among IBM products used to build a solution in which all administrative operations related to user enterprise-wide security management are automated.
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